Twitter spam messages through the distribution of mass, Symantec Security Response has detected a false invitation Twitter bring worm email bulk dangerous. Described Ronnie Ng, Manager of Systems Engineering & Singapore Indonesia Symantec, the name is dangerous insert Invitation Card.zip and identified as W32.Ackantta.B @ mm, which was first found in viruses attack e-card in February.
W32.Ackantta.B @ mm is a mass email worm collects email addresses from computers that are infected and spread with a copy to yourself flash disk / external hard drives and folders that can be accessed by many people. Messages observed appear as if sent from Twitter account. However, different from the original Twitter message, there is no URL appears in the body of the invitation email. Instead the user will see the insertion that appears as a. Zip which contains the card, such as invitations.
Parenthetically that this is dangerous to bring a mass email worm collects email addresses from computers that are infected and spread with a copy to yourself flash disk / external disks and folders that can be accessed by many people. In May 2009, Symantec observed that spam levels increased to levels approaching 90% of all email, consistent with the level observed in May 2008.
As Twitter continues to achieve popularity among users of social networks, people routinely receive email updates and invitations from other users. Symantec estimates spammers will continue to use Twitter and social networks as a popular bait in their attacks.
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